期刊名称：International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
电子版ISSN：1812-9129
出版年度：2018
卷号：30
期号：1
页码：80-90
出版社：International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning
摘要：The Research Methods Skills Assessment (RMSA) was created to measure psychology majors’statistics knowledge and skills. The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for theUndergraduate Major in Psychology (APA, 2007, 2013) served as a framework for development.Results from a Rasch analysis with data from n=330 undergraduates showed good fit for 16 of the 21items created. Validity analysis showed that using the RMSA to measure students’ statisticsknowledge was an improvement over the assessment recommended by the APA Guidelines and wasless time consuming. Together the findings provide a preliminary test that can be further developedto provide a tool for instructors and departments to use when assessing psychology students’statistics knowledge and skills. Future research should expand the RMSA to include items thatmeasure knowledge with confidence intervals as the proposed items were removed due to poor fit.Future studies should also aim to replicate the current findings with additional samples ofpsychology students.
